I fished it about 20 years ago and had a blast!! There was a large channel in the lake that had lily pads on both sides with a small clearing through the middle of it. I think it was called swan creek? Whatever it was called, trolling some lure caught so many pike! Then there was a bay that was full of stumps and also laded with pike and bass.

I've fished it a few times, but the last time was 5 or 6 years ago. It used to be loaded with hammer handle pike, pretty decent bass, and a good # of walleye. If you want to target walleyes, clouser minnows or black wooly buggers in the shallows near dusk should work for you.

If you can find lilypads and weed lines, you'll find bass and pike all day long. Those, aside from bluegills will be the easiest for you to target there. Weedless poppers, buggers, clousers, and any other streamer will all work for you.

Make sure you pay close attention to the boating regs there, as that will be a heavily patrolled lake (it's the biggest in the county). There are also zebra mussels in the lake, so check your boat trailer thoroughly and pull your plugs so that you don't get ticketed.

Also, be prepared for the zoo that the 4th of July will be. Jet skis and tubers will be everywhere that weekend. If the traffic is too much for you to handle, go find a smaller lake in the area. Most of the lakes that are under 300-400 acres won't see nearly the amount of boat traffic as Pelican will.

Good number of small northerns willing to hit. Last time I took my 5wt, and some inexpensively tied green and silver flies of all types and killed the northerns. They were up shallow and were really eager.